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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Removing '&nbsp;' from strings ??
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:37:41 -0700
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Denis said:
>> textstr = option.text ;
>
> option.text may not be the same as option.innerHTML, especially if the
> html contains entity codes. I suspect the issue is that the html entity
> codes have been translated into some other encoding scheme (ie other than
> html entity encoding) in the text string that you're getting back as the
> value of option.text.

Hi Denis:

    I ave simple text (with the inclusion of &nbsp;  codes, and MArtin's 
solution resolves everything nicely. IE* and Chrome react exactly the same.

    I tried 'innerHTML' for a few minutes, and came up with the long string 
of chars interspersed with &nbsp;

    So, back to Martin's solution.

Thanks to all !

-Mel